AWS continues to expand its serverless database offerings, aiming to help improve cost and lower operational complexity.

AWS today announced a new database product that is clearly meant to go after Microsoft’s SQL Server and make it easier — and cheaper — for SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud.

At a high-level, RDS streamlines setup, operation, and scaling relational databases in AWS, such as MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and others.

And so, AWS has amassed a portfolio of 15 databases, and over the past few years, rarely did a re:Invent go by without announcement of some new database. So maybe it's time to take a breath.

AWS last majorly expanded its serverless product portfolio in April, when it launched Amazon Aurora Serverless V2, its serverless database service, and SageMaker Serverless Inference, a solution ...

The only prerequisite is an AWS account, which may be created here. Step 1: Creating Oracle and MySQL DB Instances on RDS As we shall be using Oracle and MySQL RDS DB instances as the source and ...

Before joining AWS in 2016 he worked at Microsoft for 17 years in various leadership roles, including managing the company’s SQL Server database product and Azure cloud data services.

In a recent benchmark, Microsoft claims that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can be up to 57% faster and cost up to 54% less than running a similar workload on AWS EC2.

AWS says its new Timestream database organizes data by time intervals, which reduces the amount of data that needs to be scanned to answer a query. It minimizes storage needs and costs by ...